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Characters
Stories
100

The hero leaves his/her known world, a place of what?

What is Safety?

100

The hero meets someone who teaches him something important.

What is the Mentor?

100

The hero is changed or reborn.

What is the Transformation?

100

A person, often at the threshold, who provides assistance to the hero.

What is an Ally?

100

An archtypical hero's journey written by Homer.

What is The Odyssey?

200

The hero may reject the journey, or may be prevented from starting it. 

What is the Refusal of the Call?

200

The hero experiences increasingly difficult tasks, often persuading him/her to do wrong.

What are Tests or Challenges?

200

The hero returns to the _____ world again.

What is Ordinary?

200

The character who represents the darkest potential of human beings, the antagonist.

What is the Shadow?

200
Obi Won, Yoda, Gandolf, Professor Dumbledore, and Haymitch all fall into this category.

What is the Mentor?

300
The hero crosses over this to the journey; it is the "jumping off" point.
What is the Threshold?
300

The hero faces this most difficult challenge alone.

What is the Ordeal?

300

The hero returns with this.

What is a Treasure or Reward?

300

A person who is neither totally good or totally bad, but who often creates complications for the hero.

What is a Trickster?

300

The director of this movie modeled the action on the Hero's Journey after reading Joseph Campbell's book called _____

What is The Hero With a Thousand Faces?

400

A person, being, situation that allows the hero to embark on the journey.

What is a Threshold Guardian?

400

The hero acquires what he or she was seeking.

What is the Reward?

400
When the hero returns, he has conquered the _____ part of himself.

What is the Shadow?

400
A person or force that represents change or transformation.

What is a Shapeshifter?

400

In Star Wars, Han Solo could be considered at certain points early in the saga to represent the _____?

What is a Trickster?

500

The hero may have had something taken away, something lacking in his/her life, something that is not permitted to him/her, or a need to find or acquire something.

What is the Call to Adventure?

500

The hero crosses from the Journey back to the Ordinary World having acquired something important.

What is Return?

500

Sometimes a hero must complete the ____ again.

What is the Cycle or the Journey?

500

A pattern, original model or prototype that appears in many stories in different times and places.

What is an Archetype?

500

The Ordinary world for Odysseus

What is Ithaca?